DALLAS — When the opening round of the NHL Draft ends Friday night, executives and scouts will return to their war rooms to celebrate their first pick and look ahead to Day Two. Someone will surely exclaim, “I can’t believe that prospect is still available.”

And the Buffalo Sabres, who own pick No. 32 to start the second round Saturday, hold the enviable position of either drafting that prospect or seeking offers for him

“It’s nice to have that pick,” said Ryan Jankowski, the Sabres’ director of amateur scouting. “You get to kick off Day Two of the draft. It’s a player that you’ve thought about overnight, and at the end of the day you’re really excited about getting him because you’ve done the work and now this player’s sitting there in front of you.

“And it does give you some options as well. It gives you the ability to, if the right opportunity was there, field phone calls...